xvii, 257 pages : 23 cm

"This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading conversants on the subject of Intelligent Design and the sufficiency of a Darwinian explanation of evolution." "The subject of Intelligent Design has raised considerable interest and controversy over the meaning and relationship of science and religious conviction. Here two leading intellectuals on the subject - William A. Dembski, senior fellow with the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and Michael Ruse, an internationally noted philosopher of science - engage the issues. Their dialogue at the Greer-Heard Forum allows the reader to see in print how both positions are best articulated. The volume also provides the reader with an interdisciplinary assessment of Intelligent Design and Darwinian theory, enabling interested readers to assess and decide for themselves. Along with Dembski, Ruse, and volume editor Robert Stewart, the interdisciplinary team features scientists, philosophers, and theologians and includes several of the most noted religious thinkers of our age on this topic."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-252) and index

Introduction: What are we talking about? / Robert B. Stewart -- Intelligent design : a dialogue / William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse -- The evolution wars : who is fighting with whom about what? / Martinez Hewlett -- Naturalism and intelligent design / William Lane Craig -- The collapse of intelligent design / Wesley R. Elsberry and Nicholas Matzke -- Intelligent design, religious motives, and the Constitution's religion clauses / Francis J. Beckwith -- Dawkins, God, and the scientific enterprise : reflections on the appeal to Darwinism in fundamentalist atheism / Alister E. McGrath -- Intelligent design and evolutionary psychology as research programs : a comparison of their most plausible specifications / J.P. Moreland -- Because "cause" makes sense : the anthropic cosmological principle and quantum cosmocausality / Hal N. Ostrander -- Science, divine action, and the intelligent design movement : a defense of theistic evolution / Nancey Murphy -- The universe as creation / John Polkinghorne -- Intelligent design : some critical reflections on the current debate / John C. Lennox -- Flat or round? the sixth-century debate over the shape of the earth / Ken Keathley -- Afterword: Faith in God and the world of nature / Wolfhart Pannenberg

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